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Congress Passes Massive PEPFAR Program without Former Abstinence Funding Requirement

By John Jalsevac July 29, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A hugely expanded version of the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) has been passed by both the House and the Senate, and President Bush has indicated that he is eager to sign the legislation as soon as possible. In a 303-115 vote in the House on Thursday, legislation was passed that would triple the size of the PEPFAR program. The program was first initiated in 2003, and involved a commitment of $15 billion over 5 years to help fight the scourge of AIDS internationally. The new $48 billion bill nearly […]
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EXCLUSIVE: African Hospitals Funded by U.S. PEPFAR Program Accused of Forcibly Sterilizing HIV-Posit

By Matthew Cullinan Hoffman WINDHOEK, NAMIBIA, June 24, 2009 (LifeSiteNews.com) – African AIDS patients say they are being forcibly sterilized in hospitals funded by the United States’ international AIDS program PEPFAR, LifeSiteNews has learned. Dozens of women in Namibia claim that personnel in the PEPFAR-funded public hospital system used various methods to force or coerce them into receiving tubal ligations because of their HIV-positive status. Women's activists in the country believe the total number of victims is far greater. Amon Mgazateme, an attorney representing several of the women, told LifeSiteNews (LSN) that all of the victims who have approached him […]
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US bishops' agency lobbies Congress to give millions to pro-abortion, pro-contraception groups

March 20, 2019 (Lepanto Institute) — Since 2016, the Lepanto Institute has written about the congressional lobbying efforts of both the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and Catholic Relief Services (CRS). In May of 2016, we provided details regarding a joint letter the USCCB and CRS sent to Congress requesting nearly $6 billion to be allocated for the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR). At the heart of our concern was the fact that USAID and PEPFAR together consist of the world's largest suppliers of contraception and condoms. The […]
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Tanzanian President: Bush’s AIDS Program with Abstinence Provision is Saving Lives

By John-Henry Westen DAR ES SALAAM, February 18, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The Democrat plan to radically alter the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), is threatening the existence of a program valued by leaders in the developing world.  Yesterday, U.S. President George W. Bush was in Tanzania, where that nation’s President lauded PEPFAR, including the abstinence component that is a target of Democrat remodeling. Tanzanian President Jakaya Kikwete lavished praise on the U.S. for PEPFAR, presenting President Bush with a young child and a newborn baby who, he said, owed their lives to the assistance coming from the U.S.  […]
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House Members: New Obama Admin. Rule Tramples Law, Enables Sex-Traffickers

House Members: New Obama Admin. Rule Tramples Law, Enables Sex-Traffickers by LifeSiteNews.com WASHINGTON, D.C., May 13, 2010 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A group of U.S. representatives are claiming that a new rule regarding HIV funding by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which becomes effective Thursday, undermines U.S. anti-sex trafficking and prostitution efforts. The representatives argue that the rule will open the floodgates of U.S. taxpayer money to organizations which participate in or deliberately ignore sex trafficking and prostitution. At a Thursday press conference, Rep. Chris Smith (NJ-04), the author of a landmark U.S. anti-trafficking law and two subsequent anti-trafficking […]
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